Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:15:36 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

>> dicconf at radix.net 3/31/2005 6:32:53 PM >>>
>
>On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>> "It should be noted that there are textual differences between the
>>  serialized versions and the hardbacks; in the magazine versions,
>>  the Evil Eddorians aren't even known to exist until the last
book."
>> <http://www.outel.org/decomposed/goe/LFQ1.html>
>
>Not quite right.  At the climax of "Second Stage Lensmen", when
>Gharlane
>is about to attack Kim, Gharlane demands:
>
>"Just when did you leave Eddore?"
>
>Sam Moskowitz later won eternal 15-minute glory by figuring out that
>"Eddore", a word which had not occured anywhere else to that point,
>was going to prove to be the Boskonian parallel to Arisia.
>
>Nowadays, of course, both are NESFA activities.

Arisia (the con) is a separate entity, related to NESFA/Boskone only by
disgruntlement.

mjw

>
>-- Dick Eney
>   quack quack paddle paddle